Your Body Your System: Beyond Diets. How To Achieve Optimal Health For The Unique YOU in a Dynamic World by Ayyadurai V.A. Shiva

Author:Ayyadurai, V.A. Shiva [Ayyadurai, V.A. Shiva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: General Interactive, LLC.
Published: 2016-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Prana, the Energy That Keeps Us Alive

When we speak of the invisible or inner self, we all know what we mean. We know intuitively that the ungraspable invisible self is all about energy. In Siddha, the invisible self is formed from Sattvic and Rajasic energy, and is associated with the basic life force or energy known as Prana.

Prana is the energy that moves across the various Khosas, no different than the electricity and water that moves through your home, in between all the layers. Having Prana means that we are alive. Anyone who has ever witnessed a live birth, or even seen one on television, can attest to the excitement surrounding the moment itself. The almost lifeless looking infant emerges. Suddenly there is a cry. The infant is alive and breathing on its own, apart from its mother. A new life has entered the world. Watchers typically experience an impulse to cheer .

We can perceive our bodies in many ways, but most of us know that we are more complicated than the flesh, blood, bones, and tissue that make up our material bodies. What is that intangible force that enters the body at birth and shows itself with a baby’s first cry? Siddhars, like other Eastern cultures, used the word Prana to describe the vital energy that means that we are alive.

Prana carries with it matter, energy and information. The Siddha system allows for different kinds of Prana or energy. The first, which is responsible for breath, heartbeat, and nerve impulses, is the vital current that shows that we are alive. With each breath we take, Prana enters our body and makes its way into the circulatory system and to each cell of the body. Other forms of Prana are connected to temperature, digestion, sound, conscious energy, voluntary muscular system, excretion and the body’s elimination processes.

In Asia particularly, advanced practitioners of esoteric yoga techniques spend years training themselves to control and manipulate “Prana” in their bodies. This practice is known as Pranayama. There are many credible examples of yogis who have been able to control breath, body temperature, and other physical actions in ways that are almost impossible to understand and seem almost miraculous (or fraudulent) when viewed by observers who are unfamiliar with these practices.

If Prana carries information, and access to information requires consciousness, where does consciousness come from? And how do we get it? Because we are all intrinsically connected to the larger universe, it makes sense that we would be getting our consciousness as well as our essential life force from a source connected to nature.

Siddha teachings say that at the moment of birth, consciousness and energy enter our body through the umbilical cord as we take our first independent breath. The teachings about this are very specific. They describe 64 streams of energy that enter the body in this way. These energy streams, which are called the sutratma, carry Prana as consciousness with the information to connect us to the universe.

Thirty energy streams of the

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